topic Re: CityEngine Stormy water effect in ArcGIS CityEngine Questions

CityEngine Stormy water effect

Cicada28 — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 09:40:24 GMT

Hello. I've seen a few people talk about 3D waves in CityEngine, however I've also seen about the waves being stormy and was wondering how to do it/what I'm doing wrong?

Is there a way to change the parameters of the waves speed and height?

I have attached the rule file that I have tried to use, Can someone please Help?

Re: CityEngine Stormy water effect

Clover4 — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 13:00:29 GMT

Hi @Cicada28

Typically waves are done in game engine/ rendering programs like Unreal Engine, Unity, etc. using complex material/shader techniques. The code you have shown is simply a 2D texture file (name). CityEngine does not do animation or complex shading. It is a procedural 3D content creation program.

If you are interested in making waves, start learning a game engine> here is a interesting thing to learn for you: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BuildingWorlds/Water/WaterWaveAsset/

Re: CityEngine Stormy water effect

DavidWasserman — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 19:59:32 GMT

Brian is correct. I do think though you can strategically tag generated materials for intake into those rendering systems/game engines in CityEngine. Material replacement is something that software like TwinMotion makes really easy if you can search by tag.

Re: CityEngine Stormy water effect

ZorkoSostaric1 — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 01:58:43 GMT

In addition to Brian and David, for advanced visualization you need to plan ahead and prepare/download materials in your game engine like Unreal Engine, and they you can reference those materials in CGA. It is little bit more involved but worth the effort.

Re: CityEngine Stormy water effect

刘原鑫 — Fri, 06 May 2022 08:43:09 GMT

像做波浪这种效果，果断用ue4吧，兄弟。